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albumartist from flac files

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Mr5o1
2013-03-30
2016-07-31

  • Mr5o1

    Mr5o1 - 2013-03-30

    Hey,

    So I have worked out config.xml and import.js to be able to pull the TPE2 tag from mp3's (ID3) which provides "Album Artist"..

    Now I'm having trouble with flac files. So far:
    - I think the tag name is "ALBUMARTIST" (but it's not an official tag?!).
    - I've put this in config.xml: 

            <libextractor>
            <auxdata>
                <add-data tag="ALBUMARTIST"/>

    - and trying to get the tag with obj.aux('ALBUMARTIST')

    but no dice, it's always undefined. incidentally, the same thing is working for the other aux flac files.

    Any thoughts about this? anyone been able to get these tags from flac files? thanks in advance.

     

  • Jim Patterson

    Jim Patterson - 2016-07-31

    I've hit the same issue, a few years later. I can't believe that the tag libraries still don't recognize the need for albumartist. The "extract" command (which I understand wraps libextractor) seems to report albumartist as just "artist".

    Did you ever get a solution to your problem? I'm thinking of writing an extended plugin that "does the right thing" here.

     

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